The seeming ubiquity of charges of ‘possession of child pornography’ makes me wonder if it isn’t a tacked-on extra charge in at least some cases. LIke, someone gets busted for another crime, they seize his computers, he has non-child pornography on there but, y’know, people shave their pubes nowadays and/or there’s…

Cancelled Disney+. Watched the Mandalorian, Jeff Goldblum, the original Fantasia, a few of the National Geographic things, enjoyed the novelty of having (most of) the whole Pixar catalog at my fingertips and the thought....nah. I don’t need this.

My philosophy is that the sexiest underwear in the world is still less-sexy than no underwear at all. 

My philosophy is that the sexiest underwear in the world is still less-sexy than no underwear at all. 

This is the mystery of all modern superrich people to me: It would take very little money to ‘buy me out’ of the economy. Like, a few hundred thou and I’d drop out, quit my job and for the rest of my life be found on Adirondack mountain trails and quiet bars. But that is apparently not The Way of these folk: “Sure, I…

VS was in fact started by a man and largely intended for the benefit of men. They’ve shifted in recent years, recognizing that that model may simply not work anymore toward ‘normal’ underwear, yoga-ish pants, etc. But also: the woman in my life informs me that Victoria’s Secret simply never fits, is made of cheap,…

VS was in fact started by a man and largely intended for the benefit of men. They’ve shifted in recent years,…

We sort of are in a golden age of head-hairlessness (I’ll leave other hairlessness for another forum to get into...), whether genetic, chemotherapy-related, religious or just cosmetic as being an acceptable personal style. Seriously, nothing makes me happier to know that my generation doesn’t have to attempt the lame …

Docked points for failure to mention Avery Brooks.

No. Movies are much, much worse now.

Like, who’s to say the Marvel Cinematic Universe or Harry Potter won’t be seen as “universally beloved” in 30-40 years

I’ll come clean: I covet my neighbor’s ass.

Looks like fairly average game concept art. Throw a dart blindfolded into Deviantart and you’ll hit about 50 things like this.

While probably mathematically correct, I feel like including “have fewer children” in these comparisons is a category mistake. People have children. It’s normal. Thanks to modern technology and culture, people can often control exactly how many children they want to have. To suggest they have fewer children for…

I’d also say: We need to burn more trash. Yeah, that’s burning carbon and reducing use would be better, but we happen to have a lot of trash lying around, it has nonzero effects on the environment itself (all those strangled turtles in plastic rings, etc), and we’re going to have it for a while to come. Also, modern…

There’s something I heard: That for ordinary working- or middle-class wage earners and modern-day price structures, a debt of more than 7% interest compounded daily is essentially unserviceable. Either you pay it off immediately or you will never pay it off, not before paying like 50 or 100% more than you borrowed.…

I think the problem with all these attempts to revive long-dead franchises is that studios always see them as launchpads for more sequels...

I really, really did not care for Lethal Weapon 4. For me, violence against children is a nope-out (which is why I stopped watching Game of Thrones 20 minutes in when they pushed that kid off the tower). So the scene from LW4 where a Chinese mafia guy holds a knife up to Rene Russo’s pregnant belly in order to get…

Danny Glover gave a speech at my college (this would have been about 20 years ago). He’s very vocal. Damned if I could tell you what about because the speech was a *thing to behold*. This being in an age before ubiquitous pocket-cameras, there’s probably no record of it anywhere but the man was obviously either VERY…

I’ve tried to watch various ‘naughty nun’ schlock like this before but my Catholic-school-educated (specifically: the Carmelites) wife just can’t take it. It’s just a category error to her: “No. No. NO! No? No. Nuh-uh.” she says. Nuns to her are just these incredibly dowdy, nonsexual disciplinarians. The idea of them…

Guy at 0:12 is egregiously greasy.